People was using Weston with Intel Laptops as it used less power many years ago. Samsung was using Fedora+Wayland for Watches and TV’s i was thinking Arch or Fedora for a new AMD laptop?
People was using Weston with Intel Laptops as it used less power many years ago. Samsung was using Fedora+Wayland for Watches and TV’s i was thinking Arch or Fedora for a new AMD laptop?
I have an Intel only 13" laptop with 1440p screen. It has a 46 wah battery. I put Ubuntu on it and it lasts forever. Checking with powertop, it idles at around 4.5 - 5 watts at 30% brightness (I don’t like my screen to be too bright) and it goes up to 10 - 12 watts when I’m running a browser then dips down again once the browser is loaded up. I don’t know how they do it and ON GNOME (which is known to sip so much power), but they do and I’m liking it.
Is there actual evidence to back this up¿? I have used endeavour OS, openSuse and fedora silverblue/kinoite with gnome and kde when I was distrohopping recently and I found that battery life is the same irrespective of DE. Fedora and endeavour last between 5:30 and 6 hours while openSuSe lasted around 5 hours irrespective of whether I was using kde or gnome
Not sure what evidence you’re looking for or how I can present it. I was a gnome user for a long time and it just sips power much more than all other distros. I don’t know, look it up online? Read some posts from Reddit? Lol There was talks about improving it and it looks like it HAS improved, hence my Ubuntu comment. I believe Wayland has something to do with it, too, since it scales hi res screens better than xorg
Yes I have seen posts about and users claim it. But I have never seen hard numbers to prove it. I searched for articles or videos in which they perform from battery tests with kde and gnome but I found absolutely nothing. I actually measured it when I was distrohopping and found no difference so I see no reason to believe those people when I have my numbers.
Maybe this is true. All my testing was recent because I had a new laptop and was figuring out what I wanted to install on it. Wayland version of both kde and gnome were what I use. Also I remember fractional scaling on gnome under x11 came with a warning of extra battery and CPU+GPU resource usage.